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retronautickz, 11 months ago

Apart from adding alt text (which someone in another comment has already explained how), I want to add other ways to help Blind and visually impaired people and other people that require the use of screen readers and text to speech apps (like myself)

• When using tags with more than one word, always write the first letter of each word in uppercase so the screen readers and text-to-speech apps can read them as separate words

#/LikeThis and not #/likethis

• Avoid special fonts as they cannot be detected by screen readers and TTS software. Most of the time the letters are actually phonetic or mathematical symbols and the software interpret them as such.

DaGeek247, 11 months ago

For comic dialogues a lazy

Calvin, being boosted into a tree by Hobbes: "I watched an old movie with mom last night."
Calvin, on a tree branch: "It didn't have any violence, explosive action, or swearing. There was nothing shocking about it all."
Hobbes, climbing the tree: "Did you like it?"
Calvin: "It's hard to say."
Calvin, with Hobbes sitting next to him in the tree: "Not having my emotions manipulated is such a weird experience."

storyboard/movie script style would be plenty for everything published to /m/memes. See how acurrate the mental image that script gave you for yourself; https://kbin.social/m/CalvinAndHobbes/t/69427/Daily-Calvin-and-Hobbes-June-21-1993

PriorProject, 11 months ago

Others have answered the crux of your questions, which is that it's basically donations... either from the admins by providing free access to their server, or by the community through Patreon or whatever.

But to put into context how much money we're talking about...

• A server to host 1k active users and 5k-10k registered users, you're talking about a 4cpu-8cpu box costing less than $20/mo. Plenty of nerds with decent jobs in wealthy countries are willing to write that off as a donation. This covers 99% of the <1k Lemmy servers in the world.
• The 10 biggest Lemmy servers still only have hosting costs of $50-$300/mo. That's not nothing, but there are probably 10 wealthy nerds in the world willing to write that much off each month. And those costs can be offset through community donations. These servers support 10k-40k registered users, it doesn't take a ton of donations to cover that modest expense serving that many people.

Now, if you count admin/mod time and expertise, of course... those costs would be huge. But those people either volunteer or get a bit of money from non-profits. But the hardware costs are modest.

asjmcguire, 11 months ago

The biggest reason I'm here, is Ernest. Getting in when a project is just getting off the ground, let's users have some say about the direction of things and features. And Ernest is very responsive to the community and asking for feedback. That's exciting, and makes the whole thing feel more of a community.

Pulptastic, 11 months ago

A bar with luxardo cherries is worth frequenting.

travis, 11 months ago

My workflow for setting up a Lemmy instance goes something like this:

• asdf

Very_Bad_Janet, 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago)

Btw Piracy moved to:

@piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

Run by the same mod. They have their megathread, faqs, and everything up already. Everything that they need for their community to start again in this new place.. I would imagine the users of a sub all about piracy are absolutely fine about leaving Reddit for something new.

ETA: Comment edited so you can see the whole magazine name.

redcalcium, 11 months ago

And give up their power as mods of a large subreddit and starting again from scratch? Most of them probably aren't willing to do that.

V6277, 1 year ago

I gotta say Ernest, your handling of this whole situation has been above and beyond. It feels strange because even within the open source world, this kind of feedback and transparency isn't common. I feel ver comfortable staying here for the foreseeable future. Thank you!